Improvement in winding rope



UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

PHILOS B. TYLER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 111,342, dated July 18, 1854.

State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Reeling Apparatus of Rope or Cable Machinery as now Ordinarily in Use; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, details, dre.; Fig. 3, a plan` My improvement consists in connecting with the bobbin of a spinning-frame or the reel of a rope-layer a variable friction, to be operated by the tension of the cord which is being wound in such a manner as to regulate the winding force, Vso as to wind a spool of yarn or a coil of rope with an even strain from its smallest to its largest diameter, and of adjusting the same by means of a spring, so as to be able to wind a cord regularly with more or less tension upon it; also, in so arranging a dog or finger for drawing the reel under the great tension of the rope in winding as to allow it to move freely on the spindle in its lateral motion, in combination with a finger or guide which acts upon the rope as it is coiled to move the reel laterally, so as to wind the rope regularly from end to end of the reel, thefrope as it is wound forming a regular wedge for that purpose.

In the ordinary spinning-frame for making rope-yarn the yarn is wound upon the bobbin by the following apparatus: The iiier has a small pulley affixed to it, driven by a band from an elongated drum below, and the bobbin is driven bya band from the same drum, passing over a pulley connected with the bobbin, which pulley is of larger diameter than that affixed to the iiier and traversing with it, carrying the belt along the extended drum as it traverses. The difference in the size of the pulleys produces the unequal velocity of the flier and the bobbin required in winding. The flier, as will be seen, moves with greater velocity than the bobbin, the difference being sufficient to wind the yarn as it is spun ontoA the smallest diameter of the bobbin. As the bobbin increases in size by winding the yarn thereon its motion must be increased. This is effected by slipping the belt upon the pulley; but it will be perceived that this mode is connects with a pulley below.

defective, winding the yarn too tight at the commencement, and as the leverage increases with the size of the bobbin the yarn is wound too slack and is liable not to draw through the spinning apparatus properly, causing breakage and much inconvenience, particularly when the belt becomes slackeneld by use. The evils herein enumerated are so great when winding a rope or other large cordage onto a reel as to derange the other operations connected with it, rendering this mode of winding entirely inadmissible for that purpose, and my improvements are intended to obviate these difficulties and defect in this mode of winding. 4

The reel is placed in the flier, which twists and lays the rope `on a spindle running through the axis of the liier. To the rear end of the iiier there is a pulley afxed outside the supporting-frame, from which a band g Connected with this last-named pulley is another of smaller diameter, from which a band passes to another pulley h, attached to the spindle, upon which the reel traverses loosely, as about to be described, the spindle moving sufficiently slower than the flier to take up all the rope as fast as it is given oft' by the draw-rollers, as in ordinary spinning-frames. -To the spindle in my improvement is attached a disk or ring vl inside the ier, having a dog or nger affixed to it, the outer end of which is bent at right angles and catches into a notch on the reel l. This reel is loose on the spindle of the liier and traverses back and forth as the rope is wound on in a manner about to be described. A lever m lies along the crosspiece of the flier next the grooved rollers f, and having its fulcrum-pin upon which it turns at the center of the said cross-piece, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. On one-end of this lever there is a pulley n, and at the opposite end a rod o is attached, which passes through a hollow set-screw p in an eye or studl on the arm ot' the flier. This rod is jointed at its opposite end to a bent lever q, and upon it between said bent lever and the set-screwr p a spiral spring is coiled to resist the movement of the lever m outward. The fulcrum of the bent lever is at r in the head of the flier, and at its angle is jointed a brake-piece s, which bears upon the perimeter of the disk or ring of metalz', above named, when it becomes necessary to counteract the force ofthe bands and pulleys by which the differential motion between the disk 'L' and flier is produced. To the arm of the iier opposite that on which the spring is connected there is a stationaryy guide t, which has no lateral move- Inent, but can swing outward. Its end 1hat rests upon the reel or rope guides the rope as it is Wound thereon and causes the reel to traverse laterally. The back of this guide is deeply grooved, down Which groove the rope or cord is conducted to the reel and Wound on.

The rope after being twisted and drawn through the condensing-tube in the usual manner passes directly over a stud-pulley u, and thence around t-he pulleyn on the lever m, before named, and, passing onward over pulley o, passes along the groove of the guide t onto the reel, where it is properly wound, being drawn off by a certain determined force,

caused by the differential motions of the twosets of pulleys. If the strain upon the rope between the condensing-tube and the reel is from any cause increased beyond the determined strain to which the spring is set by the screw 29, thelever m is drawn forward toward pulley /U by the rope over pulley u and brings the brake s down upon the disk fr', which carries around the spindle, and this causes the belt h to slip and the reel to move faster and more nearly approximate the motion of the flier, by which a relief of the strain is effected, so' that at all times With ever so irregular a rope and any change in the size of the coil upon the reel the strain shall be equal.

It will be seen that the reel instead of being driven by an attachment at or near the center is driven by a dog or finger at the periphery. This is a very important point and one that caused unich trouble to accomplish. The reel must slide; but if made to turn by a tixture at the center it caused so much friction as to prevent the proper action of the guide, and it was not until the outer connection Was made that all the parts Were operated properly. The guide, as Will be seen, causes the reel-t0 traverse back and forth, by which the rope is properly Wound into a coil.

In applying these improvements to spinning-machines the mode is substantially'the same.

Having thus fully described my improved 'mode of reeling on rope or yarn after it is made, what I claim therein as new, and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of the friction-brake, operated as'described, and the sliding belt or its equivalent, as herein specified.

2. Driving the reel by its outer periphery by the employment of the finger or dog herein descrlbed, in combination With the guide Afor causing the reel to traverse the reduction ot` friction caused by the mode of driving, enabling the guide to cause the reel to traverse Without tool much resistance.

PI-IILOS B. TYLER.

Vitnesses:

THos. E. WARREN, JACOB HATsEL. 

